{"id":450048,"date":"2011-06-29T09:52:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/29\/villas-boas-to-win-with-flair\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:52:41","slug":"villas-boas-to-win-with-flair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/villas-boas-to-win-with-flair\/","title":{"rendered":"Villas-Boas &#8216;to win with flair&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"86.4130797464\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/53751000\/jpg\/_53751008_avbgetty464.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Andre Villas-Boas\" \/> Villas-Boas has appointed Roberto Di Matteo as his assistant first-team coach<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>New Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has promised to bring a more attack-minded philosophy to the team as he begins his tenure at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has signed a three-year deal after replacing Carlo Ancelotti.<\/p>\n<p>He has appointed former West Brom boss and Blues midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13957547.stm\">Roberto Di Matteo as his assistant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not just about winning, but winning with a certain amount of flair. Everyone likes attacking football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;If you see the technical staff in front of me, and my appointment of Roberto, these are people who like the quality of the game and have a philosophy.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"22.1018518519\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13955095.stm#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"5\">\n<p>I am just one guy in this big club. Maybe I should be called &#8216;The Group One&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The Premier League has a certain amount of goals in every game and it should be an entertaining game for the fans and that is what we will look to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13494528.stm\">Ancelotti was sacked<\/a> at the end of last season just a year after guiding the club to the double.<\/p>\n<p>Villas-Boas admits he will be expected to challenge for the Premier League title immediately, with the Blues opening their campaign at Stoke on 13 August, but will relish the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The expectations are for the maximum. We want to win trophies, that is the challenge we face day by day in any business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone wants to be the best and win something and the challenge is to win as soon as possible and to build a platform for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13846140.stm\">the comparisons with one of his Chelsea predecessors Jose Mourinho<\/a>, who proclaimed himself &#8216;The Special One&#8217; on his arrival at the club, Villas-Boas was keen not to indulge similar notions about his own influence.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13955095.stm#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1977: Born in Porto 17 October<\/li>\n<li>1993: Works as a trainee under Sir Bobby Robson at Porto<\/li>\n<li>1994: Achieves Uefa C coaching licence in Scotland<\/li>\n<li>2002: Becomes part of Jose Mourinho&#8217;s staff at Porto<\/li>\n<li>2004: Follows Mourinho to Chelsea<\/li>\n<li>2008: Moves with Mourinho to Inter Milan<\/li>\n<li>2009: Appointed manager of Academica<\/li>\n<li>2010: Named Porto boss<\/li>\n<li>2011: Wins league, cup and Europa League in first season<\/li>\n<li>2011: Named Chelsea manager<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a one-man show, this is about creating empathy, ambition and motivation in everybody,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am just one guy in this big club. Maybe I should be called &#8216;The Group One&#8217;. I want to group people to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a question of me taking on Sir Alex Ferguson or other Premier League managers, it&#8217;s about a top club like Chelsea challenging for the title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to be up there from the beginning; it&#8217;s about trying to build something that can make us powerful, and help us threaten for the title as we have in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Villas-Boas says he was offered an &#8220;extremely competitive offer&#8221; to stay at Porto and acknowledged it was a &#8220;difficult separation&#8221; from the Portuguese champions.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that pre-season training will start on 6 July and he will welcome back all current players.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13955095.stm\" title=\"Villas-Boas 'to win with flair'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Villas-Boas &#8216;to win with flair&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Villas-Boas has appointed Roberto Di Matteo as his assistant first-team coach New Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has promised to bring a more attack-minded philosophy to the team as he begins his tenure at Stamford Bridge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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